All of the CO&E cars had small stenciling for NOR 6-83 and 11-83 where the
"NEW" date
would be stenciled. When the cars were sold in March 1984, the GB&W
Norwood shops covered the
large AHW logo with bright orange paint. The first two cars to arrive on the
CO&E received logos, but the remainder were put into service without
them. The cars are now roaming the country
re-lettered for McCloud River (MR) railroad, along with many of the other AHW
4000- series cars.

Edward Bridges, the unofficial
historian of the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad who is also modeling the
railroad in N gauge, personally researched each car while he was an employee of the CO&E.
The AHW numbers were verified by carefully looking at the re-stenciled number to
make out the outline of the old number.

The following
is a car by car list of all 25 CO&E boxcars. Hopefully Edward will get us
a picture of the CO&E version of the cars soon.